The Metro: Birdie’s Bookmobile is turning the page on Michigan’s literacy crisis
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Education plays an important role in the way in which society...
The Metro: Birdie’s Bookmobile is turning the page on Michigan’s literacy crisis
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Education plays an important role in the way in which society...
The Metro: ‘All students’ in Detroit public schools could feel impacts from Department of Education cuts
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Education in the U.S. is facing upheaval. The Department of Education...
Michigan libraries prepare for impact as Trump moves to eliminate federal library agency
Michigan libraries are some of the latest local institutions preparing for the effects of the Trump Administration’s slashing of federal...
MDHHS kinship support pilot program aims to expand through proposed $24M budget
There are 10,000 kids in Michigan’s foster care system. About half of them are placed with a relative, known as...
The Metro: Detroit Youth Poetry Con shining light on young writers
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. There’s power in writing. Whether it's to jot down a few...
Detroit Evening Report: Dearborn Public Schools offering take home meals to students observing Ramadan
Dearborn Public Schools is providing free meals for students to take home for iftar, the break fast meal during the...
Lawmakers could adopt restrictions this year on phones in schools
A Republican state lawmaker says he hopes Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s support will help get a proposal enacted into law...
The Metro: The past and present of the indigenous sport lacrosse in Detroit
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Long before this city was home to gator shoes, Ford...
The Metro: Should cellphones be restricted in Michigan schools?
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Educators have been sounding the alarm that cellphones disrupt learning. More...
The Metro: Detroit Renaissance girls basketball team wins PSL Championship title
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Renaissance High School boys and girls basketball teams won the city...
Michigan group says Trump’s ‘stop all work’ order puts migrant children at risk
The Trump administration is issuing a “stop work” order to agencies who provide legal help for unaccompanied immigrant children.That affects...
The Metro: Detroit nonprofit renovating vacant school into east side community hub
Subscribe to The Metro on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Roughly 200 public schools have closed in Detroit between 2000-2015. These...